As early as 10,000 B.C., sheep have done their duty of clothing humanity. As one of the world’s oldest textiles, it eventually became the backbone of England’s economy in the 12th century. Wool has ...

Two-thirds of the wool produced by a flock of sheep at Bare Ranch, a large ranch in Northern California, is now going to The North Face. The ranch was the first to adopt a so-called “carbon farm plan” ...

Typically, sheep are shorn once a year. This means that the wool is clipped from the animal, producing a bundle of wool that is called a fleece. Several fleeces are bundled together, bagged, and then ...

Regenerative wool: it's the new green buzzword in the fashion industry – but can wool ever be fully sustainable? While building their fledgling fashion brand, environmentally minded Edzard van der ...

Pine trees are an important source of timber–600 million are chopped down each year in the EU alone. But while the trees are harvested for their wood, billions of pine needles go to waste. Or, they ...